throwarayes

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by throwarayes 3mo ago
“Have the power” They have power, but it’s not actually legal. Congress has mandated funds for this array, the administration wants to cripple it beyond repair before any legal action can catch up.
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by throwarayes 3mo ago
This seems to be a case of administration impounding funds authorized by Congress for this purpose. As in they’re just spending what Congress told them to. And unfortunately SCOTUS made it harder for private groups to sue over impounding. A
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by throwarayes 3mo ago
If you get a FAANG job you need to think like a professional athlete. Save most of what you make. Assume it’s not going to last. Do NOT have an expectation that this is “normal” income. You’ll probably end up destroying your integrity or do
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by throwarayes 3mo ago
Yes those are stable businesses, but we’re probably at peak social media. They need something new to be interesting in long term investment. Zuck IMO doesn’t have the halo Musk has where there’s results mixed in with the BS. And Meta doesn’
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by throwarayes 3mo ago
Facebook is for preying on the elderly. Instagram for the rest of us.
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by throwarayes 3mo ago
I think it says more about Metas inability to create new products or make investments. Look at their big growth areas. They acquired instagram and WhatsApp. Threads seems successful(?) but is an extension of instagram. Mostly they’ve just g
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by throwarayes 3mo ago
Also their AI efforts and metaverse efforts flopped So there’s really not a lot of growth areas for them? Their biggest growth seems to have been acquisitions, not new features. Maybe data labeling is like RTO - an intentional way to force
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Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
668 points by throwarayes 3mo ago|618 comments
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by throwarayes 3mo ago
I am happy to pay OpenAI for a cheaper model a few generations behind. But they deprecate models aggressively. They push you to bigger and smarter models, when 95% of my work doesn’t need it. I’d love it if model providers just let old mode
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by throwarayes 3mo ago
Ok if I’m bored I’ll be talking about fun things to do with colleagues. If only for bragging rights, impressing friends, or hacker news upvotes. My time is limited so, I’d need to be careful about how I allocate that resource to projects. T
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by throwarayes 3mo ago
I’m in an interesting position because I’m fine, but my wife has struggled to find work. I personally have no problem finding work, she applies and applies and seems to get nowhere. The main difference comes down to networking. Frustrating
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Ask HN: How do you feel about AI assisted blogging?
5 points by throwarayes 5mo ago|7 comments
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by throwarayes 1y ago
It also depends on the laws governing your contract, not just where you live.
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by throwarayes 1y ago
Yeah the warning is: you may, like me, find a litigious paranoid former employer who freaks out at everything :-/ I’d rather not carry the cost of learning it’s not enforceable.
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by throwarayes 1y ago
So far it seems maybe?, but according to the article some courts and agencies are pushing back. Well the FTC was at least in 2023. California bans anything that is effectively a non compete.
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by throwarayes 1y ago
Well it would have to recreate the entire projects, no? Then they get to maintain it. That seems like a high bar. And if it’s open source under Apache/MIT license I could care less about people getting snippets from my code.
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Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes
416 points by throwarayes 1y ago|255 comments
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by throwarayes 2y ago
Not caring is key. Like so much is out of your control you have to accept that most of the company’s decisions aren’t about you or factor you into account. Including your own performance reviews - you can get lucky and have a boss you gel w
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by throwarayes 2y ago
I don’t think you can have any impact on US spending without entitlement reform - almost all medicaid/medicare - or decreasing the defense budget All these other agencies are small potatoes.
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by throwarayes 2y ago
I disagree with the Coup framing. It’s not clear that reorganizing US foreign aid agencies is in violation of statute. As I understand it statute allocate $X to US foreign aid. And instructs the State dept to organize this aid. The EO to pa
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by throwarayes 2y ago
You wonder if smart hiring managers knew to post their roles ASAP before a freeze on new roles :)
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by throwarayes 2y ago
Isn't this just cover for cost cutting draw attention away from potentially bad earnings?
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by throwarayes 2y ago
I really hope someone here makes it their goal to get hired by Salesforce in 2025
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Ask HN: Burnout on "AI" and Adjacent Teams
5 points by throwarayes 2y ago|0 comments
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by throwarayes 2y ago
Ugh yeah I turned down a job offer even from seemingly ethical and nice startup in large part because I’d be exchanging actual publicly traded RSU vesting in the future with equivalent in options. It’s hard to trade in somewhat certain mone
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Ask HN: Anyone else hate company "hack days"
83 points by throwarayes 3y ago|53 comments
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by throwarayes 3y ago
Think of yourself and your services as a one-person company. You need to always be marketing and doing sales. You never know when that one big client (your employer) might have layoffs (or you have a bad boss, or get stuck on crappy work, o
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by throwarayes 3y ago
Sadly workplace assholery is everywhere One performance review I received was a 45 minute, one-sided rant from my boss directed at me. All completely out of left field. With no ability to get a word in. It left me utterly shell shocked. Mos
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by throwarayes 3y ago
How is this feature different from just posting to /u/myusername? Maybe this is just a cleanup of duplicate features?
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by throwarayes 3y ago
90 laid off per layoffs.fyi, which was 5%, so about 1800 pre-layoffs. So now more like 1700.

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